Top 10 Minolta legacy lenses!

FYI, we use the "Japanese term" because Occident never really cared about the quality of unfocussed areas of the images until 20 years ago or so -and even Japanese makers didn't start rounding apertures until 20 years ago or so... That's why you don't have an equivalent term in German, French or English.

The qualities searched by western lens makers were (are) resolution and sharpness -and this since the end of Pictorialism (thanks, Mr Stieglitz...). Bokeh didn't count until the Japanese brought their input.

Don't take me wrong: smooth bokeh is nice to have. But it is just one more quality on lens design. And I don't believe the most important...

Regards

cyainparadise
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Just as 'umami' is a Japanese word, that is used to describe a taste sensation that can't quite be explained, 'bokeh' is a Japanese word to describe the 'feel' of the out of focus areas of a picture.

You cannot say you like, or don't like, bokeh, as all lenses have 'bokeh'. You can say you like the boken of one lens over that of another lens. In order to not have boken, everything in your picture would need to be in focus.

There is nothing wrong with liking resolution, as it it is quantifiable, unlike boken which isn't.

pako
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You might like bokeh, or not. German school prefer resolution, nothing wrong about that, right?

With all due respect, I prefer more scientific "rates" than Dyxum results.

Regards

Pako

cyainparadise
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So, we know David likes the 1997 version of the lens. Would he say the same thing if he tried the older version? The RS version beat the Xi version by a wide margin, and scored slightly better than the '94 non-Xi version, on Dyxum-